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Expatriates

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Expatriates

Most organizations are now working globally due to the internet and globalization to reach many

geographical areas. As a result, many organizations in the United States send their workers on

international tasks to work as expatriates. These global tasks require considerable finance, planning, and

expatriate training as a strategy of improving expats' success and experience. However, working and

living in a new country may be a challenge. Still, we can reduce these challenges by taking workers

through an official expatriate training program and their families before moving to the new countries. I

will be offering my expatriate training to Amazon Company to train their employees in Italy.

           Among the three candidates, the 33-year-old married woman with one elementary school daughter

will be eligible for the expatriate training because she will go through the expatriate training and her

family compared to others who do not have families yet. The 33-year-old woman will be trained before

moving to the new country, and she will be able to adapt and have a comfortable stay since she will be

living with her family (Wesarat & Sharif, 2018). Due to cultural shock that may be a likely challenge to

this family, I would like to prepare them before they go. Some aspects that lead to cultural shock result

from personal characteristics, which require them to accept their behavioral changes and try as much as

possible to adjust by creating awareness to themselves that they are moving to a new country. They

should do a pre-departure arrival by preparing themselves to adapt to recent changes (Wesarat & Sharif,

2018). Another preparation before moving to Italy is transition adjustment, social and personal relations,

and adopting social and cultural rules of interactions. 

Moving to Italy can lead to many cultural shocks, which include:

1. Most people in Italy do not speak English, and those who speak do not speak fluent English.

2. The Italian eating habits are different from those of the United States of America.

3. There is no free water in Italy like in the United States.

4. There are no meatballs and spaghetti in Italy, and you will have to adopt because most meals are

not served with spaghetti and meatballs. 

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5. Italians do not know how to keep time; they always showed late to meetings. 

6. The shopping hours in Italy are not the same as those of the United States since they close their

shops in the middle of the day for four hours.

7. Italy is very crowded with people from different parts of the world due to many tourist attractions

around Italy (Bednarova & Chovancová, 2018).

8. Italians are amiable and welcoming people.

9. Eating in Italy takes a lot of time due to the different dishes served at various times of the day. 

10. Italians are loud people, and you can be shocked if you visit there for the first time. Italians

communicate too much.

I will provide cultural training for the company's expatriates to understand the cultural norms, values,

behavioral patterns, and beliefs of the Italians (Bednarova & Chovancová, 2018). I will also bring the

employees and ex-pats closer to get social support, job assistance, and friendship. My training will also

include all the family members and ensure they benefit from the training structure.
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References

Bednarova, L., Chovancová, J., Pacana, A., & Ulewicz, R. (2018). THE ANALYSIS OF SUCCESS

FACTORS IN TERMS OF ADAPTATION OF EXPATRIATES TO WORK IN

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS. Polish Journal of Management Studies, 17(1), 59–66.

Wesarat, P.-O., Sharif, M. Y., & Majid, A. H. A. (2018). A Conceptual Model of the Effect of Corporate

Training on Thai Expatriates’ Career Adaptability. Advanced Science Letters, 24(7), 5177–5179.